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In late 2005 or so, I was preparing to start here, I had a meeting arranged with Jack Gansler.  I passed an office door that said Thomas Schelling, and my first comment to Jack was: "I didn't know Schelling had a son who taught here."  Jack set me straight, much to my amazement.A few years later, I was at some meeting -- Probably International Studies Association -- and repeated this story to Professor and Mrs. Schelling.  Professor Schelling's immediate response: "Were you disappointed it was the older Schelling?"  A brilliant man, of course, but also a good one.  And the latter is often harder to achieve.*I might add one odd vignette:  I was watching the local news one evening and a story came on about thieves ripping down copper downspouts in older neighborhoods where copper had been used.  The reporter approached one house that had been victimized, and the owner, who spoke through a half opened door, was Professor Schelling!